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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08

The following figures are attributed
to Attorney General Kohier, concern
ing the Dow law:
No. Sf saloons before the Dow law
went into effect, 1868; No. June Ist
last, lO.5SS; No. sslosus closed by tax
alton, 1911; No. saloons closed by To-
cal prohibition, 52l total No. saloons
closed, 2U92.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08

THE treasury surplus increased last
year $9, ,5l4, 500. AT the close of the
fiscal year it had reached the enor-
NOUS sum of $lo3, All, ,507. The fur.
ther increase should be stopped at once
by appropriate legislation. Unneces-
sary taxation is little short of robbery,
and reduced taxation in the direction
of tariff reform is imperatively de-
mapded.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08

MRS. MCDONALD, the bankers wife,
who gave So, 900 worth OF diamonds 10
her lover, Seneca Augustus Swain,
and other property, in all aggregating
$50, 1000, has sued her father-ln law Tor
$5OO,O0O for alternating the affections
of her husband. AS u nuctuating
commodity, affections are rated
high in the golden State.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
Notice.

All persons having occoubts against
me will please render the same by
mail promptly the first of every month.
w. ]. HAYES.
Raveana, Oct. "A. 1851. l9QQ4t.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
and Frames

We have a fine assortment
of PICTURES of all grades.
A big lot of G A B I n e It
FRAMES at BOTTOM Nj
PRICES. An elegant line
Of PICTURE MOULDING
from which we are prepared
to make Frames to order on
short notice.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08

PATENTS, sasis'si sSrts aFsss aGssy-
rights obtained. and all other business in the
U, 5. Patent Ofice attended to for MODEkATk
FEES.
Our office is opposite the u. s. Patent Once.
and we Can obtain Pate nts in less time than
those remote from " AsHINGToE.
Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as tn
patentability free Of charge; and we make NO
CHA KGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT
we refer here to the Postmaste the Supt OF
Money order Div, and topiicials of the t. 8.
Patent Ofice. For circular. advice. terms and
refer alsa to actual clients in your own State
or County. Write to
O a. SNOW q co.,
Opposite Patant ONCE. " ls1inssln. D. y
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
FANCY ARTICLES
Christmas Cards!

The prettiest things you
ever saw. All of new and
novel styles, and prices way
down.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
Horse SlOeing.

After this date l will make the following prices
for shoeing:
New Shoes, 2j Cents Each.
Re-Setting, 15 Cents E4 ch.
Shop opposite Park-Corner Chestnut and
Spruce SITS. THOS. JENKINS.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Not a Supp0sa5le Case.

IF the people, at the next gen..
exal election, adopt the ProhibItorv
Amendment, the Legislature elect.
ed at that time is requ ired to
adopt measures to put in opera.
ton the provisions of the Amend
meat. Suppose the Legislature
were to refuse? Probably it would
not refuse, but suppose it did,
Register.
We rather guess the same PEG.
pie who elected the present Legis.-
lature will have a hand in elect.
ing the next, and the candidates
will doubtless be interviewed on
this selfsame matter. Don't wor-
ry ia advance, neighbor, over com.
ing ealamities to saloon interests
and politicians.
The Temperan ce people of this
State propose to carry this Prohi-
bition business right forward to
its contamination, and it behooves
the Register and Intelligeascer to set
their houses in order.
The suppose" of the Register
is not supposable.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Triple Answer to Prayer.

The prohibitory amendment in
the West Virginia Legislature pass
&c the assembly some weeks ago
but was lost in the Senate by a
vote of II yeas to 7 nays, it requir-
ing Is votes to pass. One man de-
nisd the people of that State a
fundamental right, Republican
right, a human right. May the
people of West Virginia remember
that man in their prayers WIS
comsan Prohabitlonist.
The women prayed fsrvently
and had an early and triple answer
to their prayers. In due time
three members changed their votes
and gave US the Amendment by 20
ayes to 6 noes.
And now the people will soon
end the saloon curse in West Vir-
GINA.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Brother Babb's Letter.

Our good Brother, Mr.. c. M. Babb
has a most excellent letter on last
page. Our friend must remember
the situation is changed since the
writing of his former letter and the
Freaman's criticisms thereon. We
were then fighting for Submission,
now We are ready to join hands
with everybody for ratification, and
feel SO good and full of fight on
that line, that we have neither
heart nor time for reviews or ex-
plantations. If we or our friend
were in error in any former mat
ter, let it go, and here's our hand,
Brother Babb, for the fight that's
ahead. The Saloon must go.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Majority Rule.

The Wheeling Register thinks
the minority should not have its
way in choosing a Senator, but
that it should have its way about
the Prohibition amendment.-Kan-
ss0hG Gazette.
The Gazette does the Register a
wrong. AS there are those who
believe that God and one make a
majority, so the Register believes
that the Wheeling saloons with
their patrons and apologies make
majority and ought to rule and
ruin regardless of the will of the
people.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Bring in Your Bill.

While the Legislature is deliber-
ating on the bill, clause should be
inserted in it to recompense those
whose business will be ruined
should the amendment pass.---
Wheeling Register.
Those whose homes are ruined
by the sale of strong drink, are not
reoompensed.- -Ceredo Advance.
Let the saloon-keepers bring in
their bills and we'll have a state
ment of accounts. After deduct
ing the losses, sufferings and woes
brought upon the people, the bal
ance due the traffic will be prompt
ly paid.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Fixing the Blame.

Our Wheeling contemporaries
have a strange way of looking at
some things. The Mtelhgencer sad
dies all evil results Of the submits
sion of the prohibition amendment,
upon Senator Sommerville. While
the Register tacks the blame upon
Senators Price and Flournoy. Did
it ever occur to our esteemed con-
tenn poraries that it is within the
jurisdiction of the Legislature to
prohibit the manufacture and sale
of intoxicants in this State, and
that if it must come, by the way OF
the people is to be preferred 2
Charleston Star.
These servile spokesman OF
Wheeling's saloons are just now
swift in fixing the blame for the
submission of the Amendment. In
three years from now every decent
newspaper in the State will Do
just as anxious and eager to TX,
claim and appropriate the honor
of redeeming the State from the
curses and infamies of the Liquor
Traffic.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Our Two Years Fight.
Please Volunteer and Help Us.

Desiring that the members of the
Legislature should become acquant-
ed with the Freeman and its pur-
poses, we sent it to them all at
Charleston during the late session
withou. price.
We now respectfully ask each
member, not already a subscriber,
to whom this Freeman comes, to
send us one dollar for one year, and
thus help the friends of the cause
in this on-coming fight for the rat
ification of the Prohibition Amend
ment.
This invitation is earnestly ex-
tended to every friend receiving
this Freeman.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
TOLOAN,.
A Splendid Prohibition
Club.
Apply to West Virginia State
Senate.

There's a splendid Prohibition
club now lying on the West Vir-
GINA Senate table.
It has been tried, and has done
most effective service in bringing
one State Legislature toterms; and
we can confidently commend it to
other States desiring the submits
sion of a Prohi bition Amendment.
1t worked charmingly in this case,
and is still as good as new. This
club is know as "House Bill 81, ="
a clean cut Prohipitory Bill. Try
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
The Women Speak.

The Christian women of this
city have decided that the London
Theatre must be closed. Who is
ready to come up to the help of
these women against this iniqui-
tous and shameless evil that is
running the boys and girls of this
town? ONE OF THEM.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
THE FREEMAN LATE.
With a Few Words OF Apology.

The Freeman is several days late
this week, but we are sure our
friends will not complain when
they hear our excase.
Early in the session of the Leg
islature, the editor went to Char
lesion to look after the Amend
ment for which we have all been
fighting for six long years. He
expected to be gone only few
days, but in the bitter and pro-
longed struggle for the submission
of the Amendment, his constant
presence, watchfulness and help,
such as he could give, seemed to be
demanded, up TO the close OF the
session.
With no one left familiar with
the Freeman's business affairs, of
course it temporarily suffered. The
editor ordered paper for this issue
before leaving Charleston, but
through unaccou ntable delay it
only reached us in time to run off
the first side on Wednesday, the
day of our regular issue, making
it impossible to get this weeks
Freeman out before Friday or Sat-
urday. And now, as the editor is
more fit for the hospital than for
duty, because Of severe cold, and
as it will take a few days to get
matters in shape, it may be that
no Freeman will be issued next
week, or perhaps half sheet only.
But surely it will be no great mat
ter to miss one Freeman after six
years fight and so grand victory.
A short breathing spell before
graphing the foe in final conflict
will not be unreasonable nor q bad
thing for any of US who have been
so long in the field. Let us rest a
little and then for the consummate
and decisive victory that shall set
the Homes of West Virginia free.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

DR.. Young replies to DR.. q. W.,
under head of "That One Want.
ing Vote," in this issue. When
Doctor meets Doctor-then comes
the tug of argument. But we
think there is little misunder.
standing or misinterpretation be-
tween these good Reverend Prohi.
bitionists.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
PROHIBITION ALL THROUGH
First and Last bay of the Legislature

| First and Last bay Of the Legislature.
AS we have before remarked, the
Legislature of 1887 will be known
in history as the Prohibition Leg
islature of West Virginia. On the
first day of the session the Prohi-
bition Amendment was introduced
in the Senate by Senator Morris,
and in the House of Delegates by
Mr.. Reynolds, of Mercer. Through
out every week Of the session, some
phase of the Amendment or Pro-
hibitory Bill was discussed in one
of the two Eouses, and on the last
night of the session the Bill pro-
viding for submitting the Amend
ment to a vote of the people was
finally passed.
The two absorbing topics
throughout the session were Prohi-
bition and the election of United
States Senator, and while Prohibi-
ton was victorious, the Senatorial
fight ended in drawn battle. The
three factions maintained their po-
sitions substantially throughout
the contest. There were 38 Demo
Gratis for Mr.. Camden and II against
him, while the 40 Republicans
and Greenbackers maintained an
armed neutrality and would help
neither faction of the divided Dem
ocratic majority. For the many
exciting scenes and incidents Of
this prolonged and bitter struggle,
our readers who may be curious
must look to the party papers, as
the Freeman has too much impor-
tant prohibition business in hand
to give attention to these side po'
litical "musses" and "fusses."
There being no election of Sena
tor, we learn that Gov. Wilson has
appointed Hon. D. B. Lucas, o.
Jefferson county, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the expiration O.
Senator Camden's term, ending or
March 4th.
The last day of the session, Fri
day, February 25th, was one of in
tense excitement, and a descrip
ton of the incidents, scenes anc
doings of that memorable day ane
night, if written out and illustra
ted, would make lively book ane
a big one; but the Freeman hal
neither time nor disposition t.
serve the future in that way.
There's Prohibition battle com
ing on, and there's hard fighting tt
be done. In this contest the Free
mans place is at the front.
No,V, for the final victory.
The Saloon Must Go.
|
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
A 100000 Campaign Fund.
Traffic.

It is said the National Liquor AS
ISOLATION has contributed $75,OOo
to fight the Amendment in Ten
nessee, to which the Liquor dealers
of the State have added S25, OO0.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

W T. U. page fairly CLOVIS
with congratulations over the Sub
mission of the Amendment. See
dispatches from Union Signal,
Miss Woodbridge and others.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

And 80 it is that we can now re-
mark with more prophetic empha
sis than ever before, The SALOON
MUST Go!
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

The Saloon Must Go. The edict
has gone forth, and now for a gen.
eral rally of the Home guards to
drive it hence forever.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

Ifyou get no Freeman next week,
don't be hard on US. We are more
sorry than our subscribers can be,
but it couldn't be helped. See
apologies.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02


Blunder."
How the Trap a0as Sprung and Who
1t Caught, IN our Legislature.
We urgently ask that every Free
man reader will get all the meat
out of DR.. Funk's searching review
and scathing rebuke of DR.. Crosby's
pet folly of High License, as may
be found on an inside page of this
issue, under head of High License
A Blunder."
While we confess to some de-
gree of satisfaction in seeing the
liquor men caught in their own
High License trap in our recent
Legislature, yet as remedy for the
evils OF the liquor traffic, license of
any kind, high or low, is fraud.
1t is no remedy unless the license
Is high enough to be prohlbltory,
and it that case it is no licen SO and
should be called Prohibition.
In our Legislature the opposers
of Prohibition in the Senate, laud.
ed the virtues of High License, and
hoping thereby to kill blouse Bill
80, raised the retail license fee to
$500, and when they afterwards
tried to get the House to amend
and bring the fee down to the old
figures of $3.50, they found them.
selves caughtin their own trap,
and the Temperance members Of
the House of Delegates refused to
have mercy on them.
But we set out to urge our read.
ers not to miss the feast set before
them in this able address by DR.
Funk, editor in chief of The Voice
1t is full of facts indisputable and
arguments unanswerable.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
AFTER THE BATTLE.
Let us Measure Our Victories.

| tween Cno home anu OalOOu loTCee,
it is well to look over the field and
see what the Tenn perance army
has won in the engagement. First
of all and above all we have the
Prohibition Amendment submit
ted to the people for their ratsfca-
lion.
We say ratification, for we take
it that rejection is out of the ques-
ton. We are sure it is if we are
not mistaken in the home-loving
sovereigns of our Mountain State,
and we know enough of them too
well to doubt. The campaign is
already begun and will from this
on grow in interest and enthusi-
asm till the coming notable Tues
day evening of November 1888.
The Amendment and the Bill
providing for the election thereon,
are the chief trophies of the great
battle for the Homes of the State,
just closed.
The Amendment was introduced
by Senator Morris of Richie, ON
the first day of the session, and so
stubborn and persistent were the
willy foes of Home and Human
ity, that the Bill providing for it's
submission to the people for rati-
fcation or rejection, was only final
ly passed at II o'clock on the last
night of the session.
But these were not the only vic
tories of the HOME over the Saloon
in this memorable Legislature,
The saloons will find the new Ii
cense law as re enacted full of new
teeth that will hurt. The State
retail license for common grogshops
is raised from $3.50 to $3.50, while
the numerous little distilleries in
the interior counties will find
themselves called on to pay $50 as
manufactured and 500 more before
they can sell. The cider prohibi-
ton is restored by inserting "any
other drink that will intoxicate".
All places whore liquor is sold or
kept unlawfully are declared nui-
sances, and courts of equity have
Jurisdiction to abate the nuisance
upon petition of any citizen. To $50,
licit or receive orders for or keep for
another" is made the same offense
az "to sell" without license, which
will make it risky for whisky
runners in Prohibition counties,
and for "clubs" in Prohibition
towns. But of all the new law
Sec. 20 will strike the liquor men
with most alarm and consterna-
ton. This section provides for
damages actual and exemplary, to
be recovered by any wife, mother
or guardian, against the seller of
liquor and his bonsdmen, the real
property also being liable for all
damages caused by any unlawful
sales.
In many other respects the re-
strictive and prohibitive features
of the law is greatly strengthened.
And then, better than all for the
rising generation, the Scientific
Temperance Instruction Law.
This should have been named with
the chief trophies. This one act
of the Legislature will be worth
more to the future of the State than
all the legislation of ten years
past. With Temperance teaching
in the School room and Home and
Prohibition to make the streets
and Fairgrounds safe, long and
rapid strides will be taken toward
L l.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 2, 1887

Don't fail to read High License
Blunder," by DR.. Funk, inside
page.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

The home forces have been Skin
mishing for six years past; the
real fighting is just coming on.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

PLEASE SUB8CRLBE.-Let every friend
into whose hands q Sample Copy Of the FREE
MAN comes, take its coming as on urgent re-
quest 10 subscribe.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
Parkersburg, w. '

ALWA YS.-In a0rtttn0 as about s@bscrip-
tons olaVays give =. o. at ,o7lteh you receiue the
poper. This will save as much trouble.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

The Amendment is submitted,
and now for it's ratification.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02

DIR. Funk on the "High License
Blunder."
Hoe0 the Trap a0as Sprung and Who
1t Caught, IN, our Legislature.
Daily Republican., 1887-01-24

sho heard an unesrthly howl which sh.
was told was the howl of @ JackaIl. 4
sneakfng, dirty animal that stole int
the tents and atole q bone wherever /,
could catch one. Her father's sleok. r.;
swine was what the saloons are now
under The protection OF the Law: iae
Jacknll is what they will be under PRO.
hibltlon. What do you think of 5000
O00,0OO being paid to keep up tbs
saloon And but $500, 900, OcO for m issions,
MISS Willard then went into clio.
quent descriptions of the hsrrors that
grow out of saloon.
Miss Willard then spoke for aopoe
ume In favor Of the movement m an.
courage purity In the home, rscitinp
nesrtrending incidents of the ruin of
character among young men who onqbt
20 bs saved. She advocated the WIFI
Oross movement among men who wiIl
labor In favor of personal puritv. ana
read the following pledge, which men
were every where taxing:
II promise by the help of God 70 trea,
al women with respect, and endeayor IN
protect them from wrong and degrada
tion; to encesver TO put down ali jnde
cent lang uage and coarse ieste: 10 m,in.
Tain the law OF purity az equally bind
rug upon men and women; to endesvor
70 spread these principles among INV
"on npa0tona,-- AID 20 try And AaIn-
younger brotheru; TO use every possi ole
means 10 fulfll the command: Keen
thyself pure
At the close of Miss willard's 3D.
dfess Rev. X. L. Hubbard held the
aud ience In few wall timed re-
marks until a collection was taken nm.
after which the choir sang another se.
lection and the aud dience Was diami isae1
Daily Republican., 1887-01-24
Petition to the Legislature.

The following petition, which will b.
presented TO the Legls lature, 10 now
being circulated In this city, and hal
already received number of sigma
lures:
"The increasing and alarming fre-
quency OF assaults upon women, and
the frightful indiGnities to which even
little girls are subject, has become the
shame of our boasted civilization. A
study Of the statutes has revealed their
utter failure TO meet the demands OF
that newly awakened public sentiment
which requires better legal protection
for WON anhood and girlhood.
Therefore we, women Of Wilmington,
State of Delaware, do most earnestly
appeal to you TO enact such statutes as
shall provide for the adequate punish
ment Of crimes against women and
girls. We alio urge that the age ct
which girl can legally consent to her
own ruin be raised to at least 18 years,
and we call attention to the disgrAcefui
fact that protection 10 the person is not
placed at our laws upon 30 high Q plane
as protection OF the 'purse."
Daily Republican., 1887-01-24
WIN be Taken TO phnaaeiph. a

A few days eince the Gardaer Co.by,
large vessel used ae coal barge. pu f,
INTO this por, Il ,cAkir oonditiou and
vas taken 10 Jackson & ShhIp's f.. r.
osirs, hnt al the na,ine rsiiaay at that
said vii not hold hsf and the dr,dock
- her an g. Hollingswcrth's Ia occn.
pea oy the ste sma City OF Llwranoe.
,he nun will b. shsnttad ard she will
men be tsbeE TO Pid,aiephia The
ootny draws twenty feet Of water her
,osoed, anf VS. bound with ballast
,.nn New YORK to Norfolk. When of
Siio Island abs struck an old wy oE,
.;sVlrg ho'e 10 the huil and causing
hsr 10 ieak badly.
Daily Republican., 1887-01-24
RUSSELL'G
q BEE HIVE, ,
BOO Market Street

Great clearing sale to pre-
pare stock for inventory,
February I. Notice a few
of the many Bargains and
profit by buying at once.
Gents Scarlet Shirts and
Drawers from 81 down to
90 cents each. Children's
Ribbed Hose, all sizes, from
40 to SO cents down to 25
cents. Gilbert's ST. suitings
down to so cents.
A few 54-in. Tricots from
SI.oo down to SO cents.
All remnants of standard
muslins must be sold before
February l at some price.
We want to sell every|
coat, wrap or outside gar.
ment we have before Feb
ruary 1; and the price must
induce you to take them
away.
r. L. RUSSELL